Price list for items numbered 1-716

"John Medole, printer, 193 Pearl Street N.Y."--P. [1] of cover

Issued together with an album of engraved plates depicting items numbered 1-716. Some of the images have a copyright date of 1873

Catalog of hairwork jewelry designed for use in mourning, freemasonry, etc. Some of the designs incorporate enamelwork, metalwork, pearls etc

CHMRB copy 39088016107039 has stamp on back paste-down endpaper: Removed from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. A partially legible handwritten inscription appears on the front free endpaper: From Dora J. [illegible], Mount Kisco, NY. There are a few brief ms. pencil annotations (e.g. price changes) throughout

CHMRB copy has a contemporary printed purple paper wrapper; tipped in at the back of a later old blind-stamped burgundy cloth album with blue endpapers

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